Font Dialog Box....Program code Inside !! Only Font Name not working !!

My apologies ... yes you are right - I was not looking carefully enough. Only a few of them work (Dialog, Serif, SansSerif, Monospaced) to name just a few.

This from the API doco for java.awt.Font:

Physical and Logical Fonts

The Java Platform distinguishes between two kinds of fonts: physical fonts

and logical fonts.

Physical fonts are the actual font libraries containing glyph data and tables to

map from character sequences to glyph sequences, using a font technology

such as TrueType or PostScript Type 1. All implementations of the Java

Platform must support TrueType fonts; support for other font technologies is

implementation dependent. Physical fonts may use names such as

Helvetica, Palatino, HonMincho, or any number of other font names. Typically,

each physical font supports only a limited set of writing systems, for

example, only Latin characters or only Japanese and Basic Latin. The set of

available physical fonts varies between configurations. Applications that

require specific fonts can bundle them and instantiate them using the

createFont method.

Logical fonts are the five font families defined by the Java platform which

must be supported by any Java runtime environment: Serif, SansSerif,

Monospaced, Dialog, and DialogInput. These logical fonts are not actual font

libraries. Instead, the logical font names are mapped to physical fonts by the

Java runtime environment. The mapping is implementation and usually

locale dependent, so the look and the metrics provided by them vary.

Typically, each logical font name maps to several physical fonts in order to

cover a large range of characters.

I suggest to go there and read up ...

~Bill

PS: It adds: Peered AWT components, such as Label and TextField, can only use logical fonts.

abillconsla at 2007-7-10 2:25:24 >

If you look at the API DOCS ... I was looking at version 1.6 ... it says that asof v1.5x there is a createFont method for True Type Fonts. You need to pass in the final int value TRUETYPE_FONT and a File Object represinting that font. This is the first time I am looking at it, and as yet I did not get the chance to really get into it. My advice? ...

1. Read through this carefully

2. Post to the Swing forum

3. Google for Already made code.

Sorry I can't be more help.

~Bill

PS: Have a read ... [url http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html]Java Glossary[/url]

[url http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip81.html]Java Tip 81: Jazz up the standard Java fonts[/ur]

abillconsla at 2007-7-10 2:25:24 >

It's really not all that bad ... it caught my interest and so I read that first link. Then I re-pgm'd your code to swing - here have a look:

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

public class FunnyNameForGUI

{

JPanel p1, p2, p3, pb,tb, main_panel;

final List li1,li2,li3;

final JTextField t1, t2, t3;

JLabel l1;

public FunnyNameForGUI()

{

p1 = new JPanel();

p2 = new JPanel();

p3 = new JPanel();

pb = new JPanel();

tb= new JPanel();

main_panel = new JPanel();

JFrame f = new JFrame("Font Dialog");

f.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {

public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){

System.exit(0);

}

});

t1 = new JTextField(25);

li1 = new List(7, false);

li1.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {

public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e){

String str = li1.getSelectedItem();

t1.setText(str);

}

});

GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();

String fontlist[] = ge.getAvailableFontFamilyNames();

for(int i=0;i!=fontlist.length;i++)

{

li1.add(fontlist[i]);

}

t2 = new JTextField(15);

li2 = new List(7, false);

li2.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {

public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e){

String str = li2.getSelectedItem();

t2.setText(str);

}

});

li2.add("Regular");

li2.add("Italic");

li2.add("Bold");

li2.add("Bold Italic");

t3 = new JTextField(15);

li3 = new List(7, false);

li3.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {

public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e){

String str = li3.getSelectedItem();

t3.setText(str);

}

});

for(int i=0;i!=72;i++)

{

li3.add(String.valueOf(i));

}

JButton b1 = new JButton("OK");

b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){

deliver();

}

});

JButton b2 = new JButton("Cancel");

l1 = new JLabel("SAMPLE");

l1.setSize(600,100);

l1.setLocation(0,0);

p1.add(li1);

p1.add(li2);

p1.add(li3);

p2.add(b1);

p2.add(b2);

p3.add(l1);

tb.add(t1);

tb.add(t2);

tb.add(t3);

pb.add(tb);

pb.add(p1);

pb.add(p2);

pb.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));

p3.setLayout(null);

main_panel.add(pb);

main_panel.add(p3);

main_panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(main_panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

f.getContentPane().add(main_panel);

f.setSize(600,300);

f.setVisible(true);

}

void deliver()

{

String name = li1.getSelectedItem();

System.out.println(name);

String style = li2.getSelectedItem();

String size = li3.getSelectedItem();

int i=0;

if(style.equalsIgnoreCase("regular"))

{

i=0;

}

else if(style.equalsIgnoreCase("bold"))

{

i =1;

}

else if(style.equalsIgnoreCase("italic"))

{

i=2;

}

else if(style.equalsIgnoreCase("bold italic"))

{

i=3;

}

System.out.println("name: "+name);

Font f = new Font(name,i,Integer.parseInt(size));

l1.setFont(f);

}

public static void main(String args[])

{

new FunnyNameForGUI();

}

}

Run it ... in the words of some clothier ... "I think you're gonna like what you see" ... not to be presumptuous ;o)

abillconsla at 2007-7-10 2:25:24 >